Next Week’s Tape: Early Peek at September Data Next week’s tape is fairly heavily loaded on the back end, with some early readings on how well/terribly things are going in September. Economics: Monday Dallas Fed …
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From Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge This is a good primer of what to expect in the next couple of weeks of the Euromess. Bookmark this page and go back to it on days when you’re …
Continue readingWSJ Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s main message in his much-awaited Jackson Hole speech is essentially, “Stay Tuned.” In light of the slow economy, investors have been clamoring for the Fed to renew its quantitative easing …
Continue readingWSJ Tomorrow’s Economics: 8:30 a.m. ET: Weekly jobless claims are due from the Labor Department. They’ve been hanging around 400,000 for forever, which is better than getting worse. Economists are going ahead and assuming they’ll …
Continue readingIt’s starting to feel like ’08 out there, huh? But is it anything close yet? There’s not alot of debate about what exactly is causing the freefall in stocks across the globe right now. Most …
Continue readingOil: We’ve been distracted by the shiny object of gold, but black gold is taking it even worse. Nymex crude is down 4.6% to $87.74 a barrel, the lowest since February. The energy sector is, …
Continue readingJay Pelosky, an old friend and Principal at J2Z Advisory, LLC, an investment strategy consultancy and former head of Morgan Stanley global asset allocation research, is my crutch when it comes to all things macro …
Continue readingWSJ Economics: 8:30 a.m. (All times EDT): Jobs getting better? We’ll find out this morning with the weekly report of Initial Jobless Claims. Economists expect 405,000 fresh claims, preciously close to the crucial sub-400K level. …
Continue readingSeeking Alpha Thursday’s Economic Calendar Chain Store Sales 7:00 BoE Announcement 7:45 ECB Announcement 8:15 ADP Jobs Report 8:30 Initial Jobless Claims 10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory 11:00 EIA Petroleum Inventories 11:00 White House Budget …
Continue readingWSJ Economics: 8:30 a.m. ET all times: Weekly jobless claims are out. Economists expect only a slight drop to 422,000. Way, way too high. 9:45 a.m.: The Chicago PMI comes out, which is supposed to …
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